Ambika Mod, Star of One Day and This Is Going to Hurt, gives a humorous performance in the latest Make My Money Matter campaign advert, ‘Beep’. The campaign group – founded by … read morefilmmaker and activist Richard Curtis – today mounts further pressure on UK high-street banks – Barclays, Lloyds, HSBC, Santander, and NatWest – to stop financing new fossil fuels. It follows on from previous films raising awareness of the links between the UK financial sector and the climate harm caused by the fossil fuel companies they finance: Oblivia Coalmine, starring Olivia Colman and The Hidden Relationship, starring on and off-screen couple Kit Harington and Rose Leslie. ‘Beep’ illustrates the unseen link between the Big Five fossil-fuel high-street banks and the climate destruction they finance using a powerful visual metaphor. Each time a customer taps their bank card; a piece of the planet goes up in flames. Make My Money Matter hopes the film will prompt individuals and businesses to switch to fossil-free banks such as Nationwide, Starling or Triodos Bank.
read less...
